[SOLVED] Startup and Shutdown issues.

[computerissue666]

Every time i startup my PC i am greeted with what seems an endless circle and blue windows logo that eventually flashes something along the lines of 'scanning and repairing Drive (D: 100%".

When i am actually done using my PC i cannot shut it down for sometime. Pressing shutdown in the start menu or typing shutdown then shutdown /s in CMD does nothing for a while where it then begins to shutdown and takes ages and most of the time restarts anyway. This is incredibly frustrating as its affecting other uses of my PC such as playing games on steam as there as issues with their servers on my files which i can only assume is due to Drive D. What id like to know is what causes this and how to fix it.

Thanks.

 

[Colif]

What are specs of the PC? How many hdd do you have?

Have you turned fast startup off? see if it helps - https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-turn-off-fast-startup-windows-10-a.html the shutdown speed (yes, it seems illogical but it could help)

This is incredibly frustrating as its affecting other uses of my PC such as playing games on steam as there as issues with their servers on my files which i can only assume is due to Drive D.

how do their servers affect your files?

 

[computerissue666]

What are specs of the PC? How many hdd do you have?

Have you turned fast startup off? see if it helps - https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-turn-off-fast-startup-windows-10-a.html the shutdown speed (yes, it seems illogical but it could help)


how do their servers affect your files?

I have turned off fast startup before yes.
And the game i have the issue with is Counter Strike and when i attempt to join a game i am prompted with 'Vac was unable to verify your files' which makes me assume it is to do with the files in my d drive where my game is stored hence i cannot play as my d drive is damaged , corrupt etc.

here are my specs. http://speccy.piriform.com/results/I8fky4Vpdrc2Xk3zkhmfdu1

 

[Colif]

run this on samsung - https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools/
Seagate might use this - https://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/seatools/seatools-win-master/

D is on the seagate

 

[computerissue666]

run this on samsung - https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools/
Seagate might use this - https://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/seatools/seatools-win-master/

D is on the seagate

https://imgur.com/a/4j1hsjq

View: https://imgur.com/a/4j1hsjq

using these at the moment, i did a scan on the Samsung magician program and that drive came up with 'completed but with errors' and the rest you can see in the screenshots

 

[Colif]

'completed but with errors'

so magician showed errors? click on the SMART button on right, will show its individual scores.

I was expecting D to have problems. WIndows never does what I expect though.

NA is the score you get for a non samsung drive. I get it on my HDD

 

[computerissue666]

so magician showed errors? click on the SMART button on right, will show its individual scores.

I was expecting D to have problems. WIndows never does what I expect though.

im assuming the drive on my computer (the ST500D) is causing the issue as its got 400gb available yet its completely unusable? ill get back to you when seagate has finished the check. on both programs the Samsung SSD 850 EVO passes just fine so it must be the other one.

 

[Colif]

The samsung tool only does samsung drives. So that could be as well.

my hdd showws as NA on it as well

The seagate has 400gb of space you can't use?

 

[computerissue666]

The samsung tool only does samsung drives. So that could be as well.

my hdd showws as NA on it as well

The seagate has 400gb of space you can't use?

yeah

https://imgur.com/a/1QWVDTU

View: https://imgur.com/a/1QWVDTU


its not here for me to access.

 

[Colif]

its not looking good for that hdd, maybe the constant chkdsk scans are a clue you need a new drive. How old is it?

https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=SEAGATE+ST500DM002-1BD142

 

[computerissue666]

its not looking good for that hdd, maybe the constant chkdsk scans are a clue you need a new drive. How old is it?

im not exactly sure , i bought this off of my cousin so i will ask him but it should not be even that old. ill see when these results from the scans say but i can already tell my pc is being affected by this HDD

 

[Colif]

I could guess based on fact I have a Z97 motherboard that its about 5 years old, that is about right time for a hdd to start to fade if its used a lot.

I would replace it so you can move some of the stuff on ssd onto it. 19gb free on an ssd will mean it starts to slow down too. Get a bigger ssd and you could replace both..,. although ssd should be okay

The closer to full an ssd gets, the slower they are. Giving it more free space is all you need to speed it up again.

 

[computerissue666]

I could guess based on fact I have a Z97 motherboard that its about 5 years old, that is about right time for a hdd to start to fade if its used a lot.

I would replace it so you can move some of the stuff on ssd onto it. 19gb free on an ssd will mean it starts to slow down too. Get a bigger ssd and you could replace both..,. although ssd should be okay

The closer to full an ssd gets, the slower they are. Giving it more free space is all you need to speed it up again.

I doubt the Z97 is 5 years old. And both passed on the seagate software. How do i identify this drive on my computer? is it this local disk D? or is it somewhere else?

Just ran another test and the second (not the EVO) failed.

 

[computerissue666]

I could guess based on fact I have a Z97 motherboard that its about 5 years old, that is about right time for a hdd to start to fade if its used a lot.

I would replace it so you can move some of the stuff on ssd onto it. 19gb free on an ssd will mean it starts to slow down too. Get a bigger ssd and you could replace both..,. although ssd should be okay

The closer to full an ssd gets, the slower they are. Giving it more free space is all you need to speed it up again.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /f d:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is D Drive.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
256 file records processed.
File verification completed.
0 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 532).
An unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 1729).

also got this in CMD with chkdsk

 

[computerissue666]

I could guess based on fact I have a Z97 motherboard that its about 5 years old, that is about right time for a hdd to start to fade if its used a lot.

I would replace it so you can move some of the stuff on ssd onto it. 19gb free on an ssd will mean it starts to slow down too. Get a bigger ssd and you could replace both..,. although ssd should be okay

The closer to full an ssd gets, the slower they are. Giving it more free space is all you need to speed it up again.

Upon disabling the device in device manager my pc works completely fine. Extremely fast start and shut down + my game works too. So i guess i should just disable the device and buy a 2TB HDD?

 

[Colif]

So i guess i should just disable the device and buy a 2TB HDD?

Remove the drive all together and buy a new one.

the way to identify the drives is size
A samsung ssd is like a card almost
https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/850-evo-sata-3-2-5-inch-ssd/MZ-75E500BW/

whereas a seagate hdd will be much bigger
see photo - https://www.minitool.com/lib/st500dm002-1bd142.html

make sure PC is off and unplugged when you remove the hardware.